The Roman Catholic Church continues to see its membership increase in the U.S., while most Protestant churches are shrinking, according to an annual report by the National Council of Churches.

The trends match last year’s: “Churches which have been increasing in membership in recent years continue to grow and likewise, those churches which have been declining in recent years continue to decline,” said the editor of the report, Rev. Eileen Lindner.

Catholics–the country’s largest church body, with 68.5 million members–grew slowly but surely, 0.57 percent last year.

Membership for the Southern Baptist Convention decreased for the third year in a row, by just 0.42 percent, to 16.1 million members.

“We as Southern Baptists continue to show signs of drifting from our historic commitment to evangelism, as reflected in the fact that it still takes 46 Southern Baptists to lead one person to faith in Christ,” said Thom Rainer, president of SBC-affliated LifeWay Christian resources, after previous reports of declining numbers.

According to LifeWay, 2008 marked a 20-year-low in baptisms for the Southern Baptist Convention, and though baptisms are rebounding, membership and Sunday school enrollment are down.

Mainline Protestant denominations–United Methodist Church, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Lutheran Church Missouri Synod and Episcopal Church–all experienced declines between 1 percent and 3 percent, according to the National Council of Churches.

The country’s best-known door-to-door missionaries boosted membership, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the fourth-largest in the U.S.) up 1.42 percent to 7.7 million and Jehovah’s Witnesses up 4.37 percent to 1.2 million. A few Pentecostal groups also have grown.

Four of the nation’s 25 largest churches are Pentecostal in belief and practice, Lindner reported. “Strong figures from the Assemblies of God and the Church of God (Cleveland, Tenn.) suggest an increase in the number of adherents to Pentecostal groups, though it is impossible to state unequivocally from this table since the other two charismatic churches in the ranking have not reported in some years.”

Here’s the list of the top 15, as reported in the 2011 Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches:

1. The Catholic Church, 68,503,456 members, up .57 percent.

2. Southern Baptist Convention,16,160,088 members, down.42 percent.

3. The United Methodist Church, 7,774,931 members, down1.01 percent.

4. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 6,058,907 members, up 1.42 percent.